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Connecting Past and Present: How to Understand the Idea of Erasing History and How It Applies to the
Daniel Abrahams The ongoing movement against police violence and state racism has returned the question of historical monuments to public...
No Strike Lists – From Use to Abuse?
Emma Cunliffe On the 4th of January 2020, President Trump wrote on Twitter that America would target: .... 52 Iranian sites […], some at...
How to feel about the fall of Carthage: heritage destruction in retrospect
David Garrard When philosophers and other theorists reflect on the fate of cultural heritage in wartime, they tend to focus on the...
Post-conflict reconstruction of cultural heritage
Mattias Legnér and Malin Stengård Wars not only kill people or leave survivors traumatised, but also often destroy the built environment...
Conflict, Conservation and Culture Heritage
Elisabeth Schellekens The 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict outlaws the...
Should looted antiquities be repatriated to Syria?
Erin L. Thompson In 2015, Augusta McMahon, a senior lecturer in archaeology at Cambridge, and Alessio Palmisano, of University College...
Towards a human-rights approach to cultural heritage protection
Mónica Palmero Fernández The concept of cultural heritage and its value is constantly evolving. One can trace its origins to European...
To whom does art belong?
Göran Collste In a speech in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso on November 28th 2017, the French president Emmanuel Macron proclaimed...
A stone in a place: reflections on the replication of historical artifacts
Carolyn Korsmeyer Material heritage is always a casualty of war, and sometimes combatants even target the treasured artifacts of their...
Killing for culture: Responding to cultural heritage destruction as a security threat
Rory Cox Cultural heritage can be broadly conceived – movable and immovable property, the human and the natural landscape, tangible and...
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